Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850Various
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850
Various
Literature -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
GRAY. _The Progress of Poesy._
On the light fantastic toe.
MILTON. _l’Allegro._
Give ample room and verge enough.
GRAY. _The Bard._
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
POPE. _Essay on Criticism._
And even his failings leaned to virtue’s side.
GOLDSMITH. _The Deserted Village._
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel’ as others see us.
BURNS. _Address to a Louse._
Brevity is the soul of wit.
SHAKSPEARE. _Hamlet._
Westward the course of empire takes its way.
BISHOP BERKLEY.
Hills peep o’er hills and Alps on Alps arise.
POPE. _Essay on Criticism._
The observed of all observers.
SHAKSPEARE. _Hamlet._
And made a sunshine in a shady place.
SPENSER. _Fairy Queen._
A breath can make them as a breath has made.
GOLDSMITH. _The Deserted Village._
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
WORDSWORTH. _Ode on Immortality._
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
GOLDSMITH. _Edwin and Angelina._
Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.
POPE. _Moral Essays._
Throw physic to the dogs.
SHAKSPEARE. _Macbeth._
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased.
_Ditto._
My way of life is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf.
_Ditto._
I’ll make assurance doubly sure.
_Ditto._
Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won.
GOLDSMITH. _Deserted Village._
Domestic happiness, the only bliss
Of Paradise that has survived the fall.
COWPER. _The Task._
Let who may make the laws of a people, allow me to
write their ballads, and I’ll guide them at my will.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
For winter lingering chills the lap of May.
GOLDSMITH. _The Traveler._
Rolled darkling down the torrent of his fate.
DR. JOHNSON. _Vanity of Human Wishes._
The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
And know the mortal through a crown’s disguise.
AKENSIDE. _Epistle to Curio._
Whatever is, is right.
POPE. _Essay on Man._
The proper study of mankind is man.
_Ditto._
Man never is but always to be blest.
_Ditto._
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
_Ditto._
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
GOLDSMITH. _Retaliation._
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